A very impressive ichneumon wasp, either Callajoppa cirrogaster or exaltatoria. Both parasitize hawk moth caterpillars. This animal was observed by Bearsted Road, Maidstone. Kent Field Club Buglife Kent Wildlife Trust Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team maidstonebc Butterfly Conservation 🦋 KCC Highways

A beautiful female Wasp Spider, one of many hundreds (sadly) within the path of an imminent road widening scheme at Bearsted Road, Maidstone.🚛🚗 KCC Highways maidstonebc Kent Wildlife Trust Kent Field Club Buglife Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team Tony Juniper Chris Packham BAS

Shaggy Parasol at Upper Fullingpits Wood. This former coppice once had an open structure, with a ground flora dominated by bluebell. Now high forest with a dense understorey of holly, yew, hazel, wild privet, dogwood, hawthorn, bramble & ivy. Biodiversity & biomass has increased.

Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi) at Maidstone's Weavering Heath. A large green space on a 1980s housing estate, it was recently designated a Local Nature Reserve by Maidstone Borough Council.🌳 BAS maidstonebc Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team Kent Wildlife Trust Kent Field Club Little Green Space 🦋

Pond created last winter at inner-urban Buckland Hill Nature Reserve. It is already home for stoneworts, newts and a community of pioneer aquatic invertebrates. The pond was not planted or stocked, and though shallow retained water through the dry months of spring & early summer.

Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris), with a Chalkhill Blue #ByTheSea at Castle Hill, Folkestone in Kent. #wildflowerhour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Kent Wildlife Trust Kent Field Club

A fascinating discovery at the River Len Nature Reserve. A likely bird-sown Pokeweed (Phytolacca sp.) has appeared in an area of disturbed ground. As the plant matures it may be possible to determine the species.BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife Kent Field Club Kent Wildlife Trust Bob Flowerdew

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Common or Viviparous Lizard (Zootoca vivipara), basking in warm afternoon sunshine at the Hothfield Heathlands Nature Reserve, Kent. Kent Wildlife Trust Kent Field Club The British Nature Guide Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team

Devil's-bit Scabious at Hothfield Heathlands Nature Reserve, Kent. This fine reserve, and its flora & fauna, offers a glimpse back in time to a once frequent landscape, now almost entirely lost from our County. Kent Wildlife Trust Kent Wildlife Trust Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife

Floodplain of River Len as it meanders through the Len Valley close to the growing settlements of Otham and Bearsted. Maidstone Council is seeking an extension to the Kent Downs National Landscape to protect the valley. Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team Kent Wildlife Trust Kent Field Club maidstonebc

🕷️ A striking Wasp Spider spotted at Weavering Heath, now a designated Local Nature Reserve! Part of Maidstone’s push to protect rare habitats & boost biodiversity 🐞 📸 Cllr Tony Harwood 🔗 climatechange.maidstone.gov.uk/home/news/arti… #WaspSpider #WeaveringHeath #MaidstoneWildlife #NatureRecovery

"It's significant and important that no one in this country is taught anything about Palestine” William Dalrymple in conversation with Ash Sarkar at EartH.

We are the indigenous population of that land, called Palestine. We are being wiped out by European settlers. Like they wiped out many indigenous populations before us. Their genocidal tools are slaughter, diseases, and famine. How little have they evolved.

Our ability to endure is beginning to collapse… We are living here in a hell that bears no resemblance to life. I see the children in the streets, their faces covered with rashes and sores, spreading across their small bodies like fire beneath the skin—caused by the extreme heat

A sublime Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus). This long distance migrant butterfly is feeding on the nectar of Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) at Beltinge on the North Kent coast. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Kent Wildlife Trust Kent Field Club Buglife Plantlife BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Canterbury City Council

A magnificent Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) at Reculver, North Kent. Herring gull populations are undergoing significant declines, crashing by more than 50% since 1970 here in the UK.🌊 rspb Kent Field Club Kent Wildlife Trust BTO Canterbury City Council Marine Conservation Society Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team Tony Juniper

Gaza’s drop in life expectancy is astronomically higher than during war/invasion in Afghanistan Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Why? Because Israel is committing genocide.

A contender for most beautiful animal found in the British Isles, the female Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi). Observed differences in the personalities of individual spiders are striking, some are very timid, others remarkably bold. BAS Buglife Kent Wildlife Trust

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula), regularly observed for the second year running in this small garden backing onto wet Alder and Ash dominated woodland by the Lilk Stream at Bearsted. 🌳Kent Field Club Kent Wildlife Trust Buglife maidstonebc Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team Royal Entomological Society